A Dire Warning for President Obama

I don't have to be a Nobel Prize economist to see how deep this economic downturn is going to be. Nor do I have to be a Pulitzer Prize historian to tell you that deep economic downturns lead to revolutions and world wars. The opening chapters of the Barbra Tuchman World War I classic, The Guns of August, and the newsreels of that era which show the unemployed of France, England and Germany happily marching off to trench warfare make that perfectly clear. And World War II, which raised the casualty level from five to fifty million and brought on Hiroshima, was preceded by the Great Depression as obviously as sunrise is preceded by dawn. And we see the bloody French Revolution that condemned tens of thousands of aristocrats to be drowned in the rivers of Paris and the Napoleonic Wars that followed it springing from the massive economic downturn made famous by Marie Antoinette's let them eat cake phrase.

But this current worldwide economic contraction we are in isn't going to cause those kinds of problems because we have an anti-war, people-caring President Obama at the helm of our wobbly Death Star. But let's not relax with our plastic Jesus so fast. Isn't Obama's reappointment of Bush's war hawk Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, and his refusal to follow through on the tax hikes for the wealthy he promised telling us that the biggest scoundrel in presidential history may be about to be followed by its biggest coward.

We spent thousands of dollars of our meager savings helping to get you elected, President Obama, and hope you take our advice. The house of cards America has become is about to crash down on your head on Inauguration Day the minute you take your hand off the Bible. You're going to have to grow up fast and see things realistically if you really want to keep people in their homes and bread on the table and rioting from happening in the streets. You're going to have to make changes in income distribution that will, indeed, amount to socialism and changes in the anti-terror, warlike attitude of this country that will have your conservative friends who stole the 700 billion and caused the crisis with their trillion dollar mortgage scam calling you a traitor.

If you blow it, even if not to the extent that takes us all the way to Armageddon, your ineptitudes will open the door to a lunatic Palin to follow the coward, Obama, and the scoundrel, Bush, who will delight in crushing riots in the street and in finishing Bush's job of slaughtering the pagan Muslims and in pressing the button of nuclear war if God wills it. If you have any chance of keeping these worst case scenarios from being tomorrow's news headlines, you will be paying a lot of attention to the Clintons, the one good choice that Axelrod and Michelle made for you.

If the possibility of these hells breaking loose strikes you as an excessive reading of history and current events, please get your science advisor to carefully look at the mathematics of evolution on www.matrix-evolutions.com.

Ruth Calabria